Higher Education is on the brink of a crisis. Most hard skills can be learnt online nowadays via MOOCs for things like machine learning, maths, coding or via youtube for things like mastering a particular tool.

I believe in the future higher education will focus on developing soft skills like leadership, negotiation or majoring in a very specific topic through PhDs.

Clayton Christensen has expanded a lot on the topic and provides very good food for thoughts: http://www.businessinsider.com/clay-christensen-higher-educa...